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Dear Senator McCain: What Have You Been Smoking?
I think John McCain has made a little side trip to Denver and has been engaging in the use of recreational drugs.
How else do you explain his comparing Shrub Boy to Abraham Lincoln this morning? This is what he said near the end of an interview on On Point on NPR
"Is he (Bush) having difficulties now? Yes, he is. Lincoln experienced difficulties and I am not trying to compare him to Lincoln, but....."
But, nothing, Mr Senator. Don't even use their names in the same paragraph, let alone the same breath.!
Lincoln fought against dragging the nation into war and agonized over his decisions. Bushy Boy skipped merrily into war with his toy Commander-in-Chief kit and sleeps soundly every night in his wee little bed.
By the end of the war photographs showed how much Lincoln had aged from the stress. Little George, on the other hand, bounces around on his mountain bike, showing off his healthy physique.
Mr McCain also described Georgie III as a "decent, dedicated, hard-working man".
Decent?
By whose standards? By mine, what he has done in this country is positively obscene.
Dedicated? Sure. To getting what he wants, and what his friends want. The rest of us can all jump in a lake for all he cares. Lake Pontchartrain, perhaps?
HARD WORKING?
He has spent 42% of the time he was SUPPOSED to be working as the chief public servant of this country on vacation!
And the day anyone else in the civil service gets 20 weeks of paid leave is the day I leave my job and work for the feds. I'm durned sure YOU don't take 5 months of leave, Mr Senator.
I'm really disappointed in you, Mr McCain. If you'd ended up on the ticket with Kerry, I wouldn't have minded it a bit, because you seem to be the sort of Republican I can admire--one who sees the other point of view and can accept that it exists and listen to it.
In fact, you had just said some excellent things in the interview about working across party lines and that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are just doing what you have to do when you are in the minority.
But then you go and start talking like a neo-con.
You're smarter than that, Senator.
Want to compare Bush to a previous president? Try Millard Filmore. Or maybe Warren Harding.
Not Abraham Lincoln. Whom, by the way, I am sure would not have let his carriage drive past a group of women who'd lost their sons in the war and wanted to talk to him about it.
Lincoln was a man of the people. He'd have stopped and listened!
And if you can't see the difference between the two men, Senator McCain, I've got to conclude either you've been listening to too much Fox TV or you're on a "Rocky Mountain High".......................................
